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Wow 1-15 would be pretty ugly. Even in 2001 when we were one of the two worst teams in the league (Carolina was the other) we won 3 games. But the talent level on defense even without the injuries is mediocre at best. And the O line is bad right now. But the worst part of our team other than the awful coaching is our QB play. If Edwards does not pick up his play, we will not win many. The good news is that if things continue to go this bad all season, Ralph will HAVE to clean house after the season which will be a great thing.

Dude, I totally agree with your assessment. Early in the game, we had the big punt return. 1st down on Miami 46. Great field position. 3 plays and we gain 5 yards. Fourth down, and we get set to punt. Miami jumps offsides. We have a first down on the Miami 36. Another 3 plays gains ONLY 5 yards. We than miss the long field goal. With that kind of field position and a free first down. The offense has to take advantage of it and score 7. We do nothing. This is just pathetic. Edwards looks like a bad rookie on the field. His demeanor, his actions show no confidence or gameplan in his mind about what he is trying to accomplish. He has no feel whatsoever for the game around him. I believe all his teammates feel that way and have no confidence that he will get it done. When you see that every week from your QB, I believe it is hard to play at 110%. Looking at the defense. Do we have any DT's that are above average? And we have one LB who should start in the NFL. And he is injured. Ellison and Buggs should not be on NFL rosters period. And why did we not bring in another veteran at safety instead of drafting Byrd. We could have than addressed DT in the second round or OT. Management has left this team unbelievably short at many positions. It is a crime. Especially with how poor our starting QB is. I believe it will all get blown up after another pitiful performance against Cleveland. Because right now, I am sure they are licking their chops to play us.

I agree that Ralph is not going to make his decision on keeping or firing Dick based on the extension given last year. Ralph hates being embarrased. If we lose to Cleveland and play crappy, Dick will be fired. If he can not get the team ready to play an 0-4 team at home when his job is very much in jeopardy, than there is no reason for him to be coaching this team.. I think Ralph will figure that out. I think Dick might actually resign if we get another pitiful performance. And I for one am not convinced in the slightest that we beat the Browns. The psyche of this Bills team is awfully fragile. Guys have not won much here, and don't have a lot of confidence. It will be very interesting to see what they bring to the table on Sunday. A loss and changes HAVE to HAPPEN.

I don't like our playcalling, but the bottom line is that Trent plays scared on every snap. He nevers goes back to pass, steps up in the pocket, and than just lets it rip with any authority. But to allow Scott and Chambers to play O tackle for our team is pathetic. That being said, NFL coaches should always be able to devise a gameplan that is tailored to what we have to work with. And our coaches absolutely can not do this. This is just a continuation of the preseason. Based on the preseason, Trent had no business starting for us. He was horrible in the preseason, and just as bad in the regular season. Our team is a joke from top to bottom, and it just makes you want to cry watching them. Do any of the players even care? How can you not be pissed losing every single year? I would really like to hear some of the players call others including coaches, management out about how bad this team is. It seems like most of them are just numb. None of them other than TO have ever won anywhere. Since the Bills have been bad this entire decade. Losing just breeds losing until the culture is changed. We have not made the playoffs since 1999. We have had one 9-7 season during that time. That seems impossible to do. Some teams are good just by accident. The scene at the Ralph next Sunday will be ugly and surreal. It should be very interesting.

That is so true! Our special teams have sucked bigtime. And that used to be our signature as a team going back to Steve Tasker and for the past many years with Bobby April. Now we don't have anything postive going as a team. We have guys playing who are playing like they have no business playing in the NFL. Scott and Chambers played as bad as a pair of tackles can play at any level. Just pathetic. Something is very wrong with the organization when this is the best you can put on the field. And Trent is just bad. He plays very scared. He has no business starting in the NFL. What happened to the guy? Totally different player than 2007 when he was a rookie. Is there any team that plays this weak on a regular basis? 3-11 in the last 14 games. We are as bad as any team in the league. Time for a big big change. DICK MUST GO. Today was an embarrasment to the organization. It can not be forgotten. A regime change is needed IMMEDIATELY. This just SUCKS.

I think if you are just going by the current season, I would say the Carolina Panthers. They play hard as evidenced by their Monday nite game against Dallas, but they are small on defense, have a very erratic QB, and also have a good running game. You know they are going to come to play almost every week, but their talent level at a lot of positions is just not that strong. Similar to us. We play hard, but are just not stacked with a lot of very good to great players.

Faith, you are so right. We seem to lose guys to the IR in record numbers every year. The Jauron era has been just a joke. Hopefully it ends after this Sunday.

I agree Jax. Leodis looks totally lost on the field in coverage. He is an excellent athlete but has no clue on how to play DB at this level. The Bills made a terrible pick here because he did not play against top receivers at Troy. Florence is a much better football player.

Dick is FIRED!! Should not even be allowed back on the plane.

What are you talking about? He is a coward on the football field. Plain and simple. He has no moxie to lead this team anywhere. He played OK in the NE game. But when it was time to step up in the last 51 seconds, he could not get it done. Sure there was some rush, but after hitting TO for 20 yards he froze. On the second play when stepping up in the pocket, he hesitated slightly and got hit. That was pretty much the game. He does not dictate the game from his position. That is called presence. He does not have it. He plays scared. He is no better than JP. For the life of me, after his pathetic performance against the Steelers in the preseason, why was he even allowed to start? He has no body of work that says "I am a starter." On many teams in the NFL, he would NOT have been named the starter by the way he played in the preseason. But not on the Bills. DJ loves him for no apparent reason, because he will not think the game by himself. He just takes orders. God he is WEAK!!!

Very good analysis. I totally agree with you about Trent. Plays like a robot. Looks constantly tentative and never real comfortable. He is not starter material in the NFL. JP was not starter material, Bledsoe was washed up, and so was Holcomb. And RJ was not even backup material. God, our front office has no clue on what a QB should be able to do. Also agree about TO. Looks to be going thru the motions. His heart does not look into it. He and the Bills do not seem to be a good fit. Do TE and TO ever talk? Does Trent ever talk with any of his receivers? Very dysfunctional offense. Lose to Miami and the bottom falls out. We get embarrased and Dick is gone, hello April fools. Hello Fitzie.

Why does TE always say that he is not prepared? The guy plays QB in the NFL. He is supposed to be a good player to be one of 32 starters at his position. He should be able to adapt to whatever is being thrown at him. His job is to throw the ball DOWN the FIELD to his receivers that are at least partially open. When you guys played sandlot ball as a kid didn't you always throw medium to deep passes? Who the heck wants to dump it off? I know I would always go down the field. He way overthinks everything. He needs to go out on the field and say to himself. I don't care what they are throwing at me, my receivers and I can beat anything. This guy is a robot who has no feel for the position. I can see him getting just creamed by the Fish, and than we will have a guy with not the most talent, but a whole lot more feel for the position playing. I blame management for taking TE to begin with. What the hell did he ever show to impress us so much to take him? I blame Jauron for keeping him as our starter this year when he has actually regressed. He looks like he doesn't even want to play. Why has there been no competition for the starting QB job? Just pathetic

For the life of me, why did we go with 2 receivers and 2 tight ends almost the entire game against the Saints? We have an excellent slot man in Josh Reed, and we are not even dressing Steve Johnson. The entire offensive scheme is archaic and useless. Derek Fine never runs a pattern over 5 yards from the line of scrimmage, and Lee Evans is being thrown to at less than 10 yards as well. We should be running 4 receivers at 15- 25 yards down the field with Freddy as a dump off screen guy if nothing is open deep. We need to start stretching the field vertically like just about every other team. With the scheme we are running, we are putting no pressure on the defense, and they can load up to blitz as the Saints did. Rush at least six on every play and use two corners and two safety's to cover Lee and TO. And put anyone on Fine, who will probably drop the ball anyways. Jauron and his offensive coaches are just not installing a modern gameplan. The fact that we have not had a 300 yard passer in 39 games is absolutely mindboggling. And goes hand in hand with our horrible record against teams with winning records. DJ should be fired on this stat alone. Until we can find a vertical passing game (with a QB and offensive coaches who want one) this team will lose many more than they win. Noone wins consistently with a grind it out game anymore. Sure you need to be able to run some. (Giants in 2007) But you had better be able to throw it down the field. And we can not and do not try to do that. I believe at least Fitzpatrick would attempt to throw down the field. Here's to hoping he is starting much sooner than later.

I agree. I don't think we can score a TD against Miami's defense the way we are scared to throw down the field. I went to the Miami-Atlanta game and the fins D was tough accept they had noone to cover Gonzalez. We don't have a guy like Gonzalez, so how do we win any matchups? And our D will probably wilt in the heat, with Bryan Scott missing one of his tackles on a TE late in the game.

These two stats tell it all about how bad this team has been and continues to be under Dick Jauron. The look on his face at the end of yesterday's game said it all. He looked like he knew he was about to get canned. We can only hope. Why not fire him today? Does anybody really think we can turn this around with DJ? He has had over three seasons. We played about as bad an offensive game as you can play at home against a mediocre defense. Miami's defense is going to be all over us next week. I could see TE going down very hard. At least than we get Fitzpatrick who could possibly give us a spark.

Gruden was raving about the Bills on Monday nite. He is all ego and would love nothing more than to be the savior for this win starved city. He knows how much we love the Bills. This team would change completely if he took over. Wow, I just get excited thinking about it!!

Did you watch Payton Manning last nite? He goes back and bang, he releases the ball. Trent holds the ball wayyyy too long, good doctor. To not put a majority of the blame on him for the loss is just wrong. Again, as I have said several times today. He has no feel for the game around him.

Trent is just awful. The Saints were ripe to be beaten. Our defense completely took away their passing attack. To not get TO at least ONE catch is a crime. As a QB you are not going to have a lot of time every game. Sometimes you have to get out of trouble and make a play. Everytime Trent rolls to his right, he never can get the ball down the field. He looks to the Tight end dump off who is ALWAYS running parallel to the line of scrimmage. The offense should be ashamed. This team will be lucky to get back to seven wins. No improvement from last year on offense. I would start Fitzpatrick next week. He at least has a feel for the position. I don't think Trent has a clue.

Nick Harris should be starting over Ellison because Ellison is way too short to play OLB. Ben Watson just ate him up as did all of the NE receivers. Ellison is stout against the run, but BLOWS in pass coverage.

Donte Whitner is terrible. In fact both he and Scott can not cover anybody over the deep middle. On the touchdown with two minutes left both safety's never even moved. They are worthless in coverage. Then on the winning touchdown, Keith Ellison was no match for Watson. He is just too small to cover him. But of course there was no safety help. I thought the team was prepared to play and the coaching was solid. The Bills problem is we are very weak at LB and Safety. We have been for years. Hopefully Nick Harris and Jarius Byrd will be an improvement eventually. But Mitchell, Ellison, Scott and Whitner should not be starting against teams that pass the ball all the time. They are just not athletic enough to make plays. And for Whitner to have been picked 8th with his very marginal athleticism is a joke.

Jokeman that is ridiculous. Did you watch Rhodes play against Detroit or in the other preseason games? He is SLOW!!! He has absolutely no burst, and he can not pick up the blitz. To me he looked pretty soft and lackadaisical on the field. I think Oman and McIntyre give us a whole lot more at the position than Rhodes. As for Walker, the guy is marginal at best. He has no foot speed to play LT and did not dominate at RT. Why everyone is so up in arms about getting rid of an average Olineman at best is just plain stupid. The negativity towards the Bills is just unbelievable. We haven't played a game yet and the majority of you just HATE this team beyond reason. I for one am just happy that the NFL season is upon us. We have a LOT of great offensive players and a defense that looks to be quite solid. If our QB can become a man and step up like an NFL team should, than this team will be very good. Most of you just seem so miserable. If you are that bumbed out by getting rid of Rhodes, Schonert and Walker go root for another team.

That should happen pretty quick as Fine and /or Schouman NEVER can stay healthy. Look at their three total seasons between them. Have they ever been healthy at the same time? How much you want to bet that Fine is not practicing this week and is at least inactive for the opener? We could have 6 or 7 TE's playing by the end of the season. And probably like 14 DB's.

I would cut Donte Whitner. He makes absolutely no plays. It is mind boggling how we could have taken such a mediocre player with the 8th pick who is also very marginal athletically as well. He plays WAY too far from the line of scrimmage and can not close on the ball quickly. The Steelers last week hit several 15-20 yard passes over the middle because Whitner was not closing fast on the receiver. I don't think he would start on most teams. But looking at our safeties, they really are not very stellar in the least. I hope that Byrd can really step up and play. I would also cut Schouman and play Stupar and Nelson as our top two TE's. Has anyone else noticed that Schouman and Fine have been consistently injured since entering the league? What is wrong with them? They are always HURT. We have some top end talent at skill positions, but our second tier guys are pretty marginal when you look across the board. We need so much more production from safety and tight end. Hopefully, Byrd is a much better Whitner.

Andre Reed BLOWS Tim Brown away my friend. Not even in the same league. On the toughness scale Andre was a 10, and TB a 2.